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Latest Links Heard on the Show

PcPhone | Use Your Phone On Your Pc (pcphone)
     heard on Sat 15 Aug 26
Make phone calls through Bluetooth PcPhone allows you to use your Linux PC as a Bluetooth phone. Connect your Android phone via Bluetooth and make or receive calls directly from your computer using your PC's microphone and speakers.

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Find and remove personal info in Google Search results
     heard on Sat 15 Aug 26
When you use “Results about you,” you can find out if your personal info, like your home address, phone number, or email address shows up in search results. Important: Some of these features are currently rolling out for users who are over the age of 18 in certain markets. To request removal of a result that shows personal info for a person under the age of 18, use the detailed removal request form.

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World’s largest gravesite collection
     heard on Sat 15 Aug 26
Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials or add photos, virtual flowers and a note to a loved one's memorial. Search or browse cemeteries and grave records for every-day and famous people from around the world.

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5 Favorite Linux Video Editors of 2026
     heard on Sat 15 Aug 26
Linux offers a rich diversity of video-editing equipment that spans use cases ranging from tweaks to YouTube cat videos to high-end productions intended for broadcast television.

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FolderMatch
     heard on Sat 8 Aug 26
FolderMatch is an award-winning Windows software that makes it easy to compare folders & files and find duplicate files. Winner of the prestigious Shareware Industry Award for three consecutive years, FolderMatch is a must-have insurance against data loss. With nearly 30 years of experience, millions of downloads worldwide, and used by most Fortune 500 companies, you can count on FolderMatch for quality and reliability.

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Backblaze Hard Drive Data and Stats
     heard on Sat 8 Aug 26
Since 2013, Backblaze has published statistics and insights based on the hard drives in our data center. You'll find links to those reports below. We also publish the data underlying these reports, so that anyone can reproduce them. You'll find an overview of this data and the download links further down this page.

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Pithos is a native Pandora Radio client for Linux
     heard on Sat 8 Aug 26
Pithos is a native Pandora Radio client for Linux. It’s much more lightweight than the Pandora.com web client, and integrates with desktop features such as media keys, notifications, and the sound menu.

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VeraCrypt, replacement for TrueCrypt
     heard on Sat 8 Aug 26
VeraCrypt is a free and open-source utility for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). The software can create a virtual encrypted disk that works just like a regular disk, but within a file. It can also encrypt a partition or (in Microsoft Windows) the entire storage device with pre-boot authentication.

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Enpass - Password Management Your Way
     heard on Sat 8 Aug 26
Most password managers offer the same core features, including password generation, autofill, passkeys, and end-to-end encryption. Enpass delivers all of this while remaining a privacy-first, zero-knowledge password manager built on true data sovereignty. This means your encrypted data stays under your control, never on Enpass servers, so only you can access it. Your password management, your data, your way.

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Using Timeshift to back up and restore your Zorin OS
     heard on Sat 8 Aug 26
Timeshift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system.

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